The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-24
will yet be taught to respect the lease

8. ut proposes to confscate and de.
stroy, without compensation, large prop
erty interests Of our people. 1t will
unsettle business and impair property
values; paralyze for period at least the
commercial interests of our state. and
destroy grea. industries already in opera.
ton for the manufacture Of milder stimu-
lants. II will abolish the source of
public revenue fully one third, and in
crease to corresponding extent the
burdens upon our lands and the necess-
aries of life, already overburdened with
the eXacli0ns of government.
This plank deserves more thought than
any that has preceded 1t. 1t sounds
more like business. 1t appears to go
more directly to the question at issue.
They have taken off their coats. tight
ened their pantaloons, rolled up their
sleeves, md are now ready to talk bust
ness. The wild animal has been driven
to his lair and now stands with grinning
teeth, ominous growl! and hair turned
the wrong way, ready for the fatal con-
flict. His cry is, touch not my lair. |
must have your children to feed upon
the broken hearts of your wives, daugh-
tiers. mothers and sisters must season
my soup. The energies of your enter
prising citizens the life blood of your
noble boys, fathers, husbands and broth
ers, must be surrendered to satisfy my
insatiate nav Interfere with me if you
dare, and III warrant that you will not
come off free from scratches.
Fellow citizens of Texas, will you
stand idly and passively by and witness
the horrible carnival? Yet this is what
the liquor dealer and the opposition to
this measure would have you do.
What property will be contscated and
destroyed? fhc saloon fixtures only.
Certainly not the liquors on hand. They
will have two years in which to close up
business and in that time can certainly
reef the sails 10 meet the storm. Their
furniture can very readily be adapted to
various lines of business. They can dis
pose of it at second hand stores; they
have caused many n poor woman to do
the same thing. Besides behold the vast
amount of property coniscated daily by
the liuuor traffic. The homes that are
being made desolate; the good citizens
that are being murdered; scarcely day
passes that our papers do rot chronicle
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this inveterate foe to humanity. The
strikes that il produces. Are all of these
to go for naught2 Have none of our
people any rights except those engaged
in the liquor traffic?
1T will unsettle business and impair
property values; paralyze for period at
least the commercial interests OF the
state"
The money that now goes to support
the saloon will go to the bookstore, the
grocery merchant, the dry goods mer'
chant. the school teacher, and various
other trades and professions that are of
benefit to the country. In the place OF
dismsntled homes, starving children,
idle husbands, brothers and sons, and
murdered relatives, we will have indus
trious and cheerful faced citizens; bright
faced children tripping to and from
school; happy housewives singing lula
bys to bright eyed cherubs that are to
be saved from the fearful ordeal to
which the youth of the country are now
subjected. This in the place of the liquor
traffic and its accompanying evils, vices
and crimes.
| do not feel competent to properly
describe the hideous monster, but will
surrender il to brighter mind. Robert
G. lngersoll thus speaks of the liquor
traffic and its attendant evils, and by the
way, he can hardly be charged with be
ing religious fanatic or in any wise
connected with the Protestant Priest
craft"
81 am aware that there is predjudice
against any man who manufactures
alchohol. ! believe that from the time
it issues from the coilcd and poisonous
worm in the distillery until it empties
into the Jaws of death, dishonor aud
crime. 1t demoralizes everybody that
touches il from its source TO where II
ends. | do not believe that anybody
can contemplate the object without be-
ing predjudiced against the liquor crime.
All we have to do, gentlemen, is to think
OF the stream of death, of the suicides. of
the ignorance, of the restitution, of the
little children tugging at the faded and
wiihered breast of weeping and despair
ing mothers, OF wives asking for the